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Monday, December 8, 2014

Is it time for the Black Community to FIRE Al Sharpton?

When a Football team has a losing record the owner fires the
head coach.

When a Basketball team has a losing record the owner fires
the head coach.

When a Hockey team has a losing record the owner fires the
head coach.

When a Baseball team has a losing record the owner fires the
Manager.

In some cases when things are not going right for a sports
team not only fires the manager, the owner goes further up the chain and fire
the General Manager. In extreme cases they clean house and get rid of high
priced players who are dead weight.

The way I see it Black people need to fire Al Sharpton. Al
Sharpton has a losing record when it comes to Civil Rights. What is he 2 for
53? Since 1988 I can count loss after loss under his leadership. 25 straight
years of FAILURE.Look at the
number of high profile cases that have ended either unresolved or with
acquittals:

Tawana Brawley

Michael Stewart

Michael Griffith

Yusuf Hawkins (won)

Abner Louima (won)

Patrick Dorismond

Amadou Diallo

Sean Bell

Trayvon Martin

Oscar Grant

And now Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

If Sharpton was a head coach for any sports organization he’d
have been FIRED a long time ago. If he were a CEO at a major corporation he’d
have been FIRED a long time ago. Hell, if he were a manager at a retail
establishment he’d have been FIRED a long time ago.

Why? Because in all those positions of leadership the leader
is held accountable for their actions. They’re held accountable for their
performance.

But Because Black people have no sense of ownership in their
communities across their country they don’t hold incompetent Black leaders like
Al Sharpton and his National Action Network cronies accountable for anything. Since
Black folks just eke out an existence in neighborhoods they don’t own or
control, they just continue to support him loss after loss after loss instead
of calling him to the table and holding him accountable.

Sharpton’s approaches to Civil Rights are rooted in archaic
approaches to social justice that are no longer effective today. White
Supremacy has adapted to these approaches and is changing its course to counter
every strategy he has presented time after time for the last 15 years. Yet he
continues to do the exact same things and expect a different result.

The rest of the world calls this insanity, but Al Sharpton
and the dysfunctional Black leaders who follow him call this Civil Rights.

Give this man a pink slip and send him on his way.

Looking at Sharpton’s approach to Civil Rights all he uses
the same old defensive strategies with no plan for an offense. All Sharpton knows
how to do March n’ protest, shuck n’ jive and Blame n’ shame. Beg for crumbs
from White folks. Reacting after things happen instead of responding to prevent
them from happening.

In the aftermath of the Grand Jury decisions from Michael
Brown and Eric Garner, Al Sharpton is organizing yet another March on
Washington. Er…didn’t we just march on Washington last year to celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of the March on Washington? How is another march going to change
anything for Eric Garner and Michael Brown? Especially on a SATURDAY when all
the government offices are CLOSED?

Someone needs to tell Al Sharpton This is 2014. We need strategies
to fight White Supremacy and Racism that will work in the 21st
Century, not the 20th Century.

When it comes to Al Sharpton he’s just going around in
circles doing the same thing and expecting a different result. In all the
protests for Eric Garner and Michael Brown there was no offensive strategy to
go along with it. The way I see it Black folks need MORE than Justice. We need
a comprehensive plan to counter the White Supremacy behind the deaths of these
Black men and the culture that is working to destroy Black people mentally,
emotionally and socially.

In all of Al Sharpton’s protests for Eric Garner and Michael
Brown, Where was the plan for Black Group Economics? A plan to get Black people
buying Black and supporting Black-owned businesses on Black Friday would have
had a stronger impact than a bunch of Black folks Marching and protesting
chanting “No Justice No peace” in nonblack shopping districts or tearing up
their own communities like Ferguson. It would have brought some of the $3.3
trillon Black people have in spending power back to Black-owned businesses.Maybe if Black leaders made this an
annual thing it’d allow Black business owners to get the capital needed to hire
other Black people like Eric Garner so they wouldn’t be on the street to be a
target of police.

And where was the plan to organize neighborhood watch in
Black neighborhoods like the Guardian Angels? If we patrolled our own
communities it would cut down on the patrols by police that got Akai Gurley
killed. If we patrolled our neighborhoods we could deal with the dusty
dysfunctional Negroes wreaking havoc in our neighborhoods like drug dealers and
gang members. And maybe we could cut down our own crime rate and save a life or
two.

Furthermore, where is the plan to establish moral standards
for Black people? The Black community lets all sorts of debauchery pass. And
thanks to this debauchery it’s a cesspool. Everything goes from Scandal, World
Star Hip Hop, Ghetto Gaggers, Gangsta Rappers and movies like Monster’s Ball,
Precious, and No Good Deed. Children as young as five years old are exposed to
this media. And we haven’t heard a PEEP from Al Sharpton to speak against it.
Maybe if we established standards for Black people we could cut an inroads in
the birth of all these bastard babies mothers and finally stop the vicious
cycle of poverty that’s on its third generation.

A good Black leader would have a plan for all this. But Not
Al Sharpton. No, he only comes out to speak for Black people when a Black man
is killed by a White Cop or a nonblack person. The same hustle he’s been
running since 1988.

This is why Black people need to FIRE him as their spokesman.
Sharpton has a 2-for-53 record when it comes to Civil Rights. In any other part
of the world he wouldn’t be allowed to continue speaking for the community. He
wouldn’t be considered a leader because no one follows a LOSER. But because Black
people don’t own anything in their communities and have nothing invested in
them, they’re the only people in the world who continue to reward failure and
allow failures to advocate for their cause.

Is it time for the Black community to fire Al Sharpton? Yeah
I think it is. Black people in this 21st Century it’s time for a new
approach to Civil Rights, and we need new leaders to apply new strategies to
move the Black race forward.

7 comments:

On a less related note, I find it weird why some people (especially if they think of themselves as feminists) say that it's progressive to have practically and essential blackface white characters in shows like The Flash. Having Jenni Ognats on the Flash is one thing, turning Iris West into Barry Allen's adoptive black sister is another. And not a lot of blacks protest about it.

Well, Ad do protest against Iris West. It's just not right to have a character like Iris who is essential to the Flash Mythos changed just to suit a producer's view. Iris is essential to Wally West and the Flash legend. Also steamed about the death of Simon Stagg on the show. That kills any chance of us getting Metamorpho in the TV DC Universe.

Thank you! Now we are cooking with grease! Sometimes (no offense), I thought that you were going to be one of those Tommy Sotomayor/David Carroll/Akwesi100 types who simply deflect away from White Supremacy and talk down in an arrogant manner, yet sit idle and do nothing to solve the problem. But I see that you are serious and I respect that.

Shawn folks are mad at what was done to Iris and even Wally West in the comic (he's black with a criminal record). And many have asked why is this happening when you have black characters like Static? Who sit in limbo because someone doesn't like him.

In fact if you look at DC Comics the majority of the established black characters are MIA except for John Stewart, Steel and Cyborg. I am shocked that you haven't vented about the Cyborg movie DC will do in 2020.

We will have a black movie from DC featuring a guy who is 2/3 a man with a limited history in the new 52. While Marvel tosses out Black Panther-who will be in 3 films and 5 solo series to attract readers. Even Falcon has done more in one month that every single DC minority in 3 years.

Yes Al needs to go. I see him and I already see a loss. Because it just seems like he is there for attention and that is it. We can't fix the black community by yelling victim all day.We have to look at ourselves. Yes Mike Brown was a tragedy but why is no asking the question of why is it 90% of the time these deaths happen when the black guy has committed a crime?Excluding Trayvon & other black males killed while doing nothing-I am seeing too much outrage when a black criminal is killed by a cop.

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